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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD JEFE

La palabra jefe procede del francés chef.
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PRONUNCIATION OF JEFE IN SPANISH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JEFE

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Jefe is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES JEFE MEAN IN SPANISH?

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Boss

Jefe

A chief, supervisor, manager or superior is a person who is authorized to give ordinances to his subordinates, and is in a higher position in the hierarchy in an office, company, corporation, government, club or body. A leader is charged with the task of formulating goals for a group, providing the means to achieve them, making decisions to reach a good port, and reacting to unforeseen situations. Un jefe, supervisor, encargado o superior, es una persona que en una oficina, empresa, corporación, gobierno, club u organismo, está autorizado a dar ordenanzas a sus subalternos, y se encuentra en un puesto superior en la jerarquía. Un jefe es el encargado de la tarea de formular objetivos para un grupo, proporcionar los medios para que se consigan, tomar decisiones para que se llegue a un buen puerto, y reaccionar a las situaciones imprevistas.

Definition of jefe in the Spanish dictionary

The first definition of boss in the dictionary of the real academy of the Spanish language is superior or head of a corporation, party or office. Another meaning of chief in the dictionary is military with any of the degrees of commander, lieutenant colonel and colonel in the Army, or those of captain of corvette, captain of frigate and captain of ship in the Navy. Boss is also head or high part of the coat of arms. La primera definición de jefe en el diccionario de la real academia de la lengua española es superior o cabeza de una corporación, partido u oficio. Otro significado de jefe en el diccionario es militar con cualquiera de los grados de comandante, teniente coronel y coronel en el Ejército, o los de capitán de corbeta, capitán de fragata y capitán de navío en la Armada. Jefe es también cabeza o parte alta del escudo de armas.
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SPANISH WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JEFE


azarnefe
a·zar·ne·fe
efe
e·fe
mequetrefe
me·que·tre·fe
subjefe
sub·je·fe
tabefe
ta·be·fe
tefe
te·fe
trefe
tre·fe
vicejefe
vi·ce·je·fe

SPANISH WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JEFE

jeda
jedar
jedentina
jediondo
jedive
jedrea
jefa
jefatura
jefaza
jefazo
jegüite
Jehová
jeito
jején
jelengue
jelepate
jeliz
jemal
jeme
jemer

SPANISH WORDS THAT END LIKE JEFE

alarife
aljarafe
anafe
apóstrofe
arrecife
atarfe
bife
bofe
catástrofe
enchufe
epígrafe
fe
gafe
limítrofe
matarife
morfe
nife
profe
rafe
rifirrafe

Synonyms and antonyms of jefe in the Spanish dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «jefe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JEFE

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Translator Spanish - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

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jefe
570 millions of speakers

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boss
510 millions of speakers

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सिर
380 millions of speakers
ar

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رئيس
280 millions of speakers

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голова
278 millions of speakers

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cabeça
270 millions of speakers

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মাথা
260 millions of speakers

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chef
220 millions of speakers

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kepala
190 millions of speakers

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Kopf
180 millions of speakers

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ヘッド
130 millions of speakers

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머리
85 millions of speakers

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sirah
85 millions of speakers
vi

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đầu
80 millions of speakers

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தலை
75 millions of speakers

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डोके
75 millions of speakers

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kafa
70 millions of speakers

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testa
65 millions of speakers

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głowa
50 millions of speakers

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голова
40 millions of speakers

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cap
30 millions of speakers
el

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κεφάλι
15 millions of speakers
af

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kop
14 millions of speakers
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huvud
10 millions of speakers
no

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hodet
5 millions of speakers

SPANISH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY

jefe
jefe 
  boss ; chief ; employer ; chief honcho ; top official ; top position ; head honcho ; honcho ; gaffer ; leader.
 The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.
 He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
 But we have an obligation to these students, to their future employers and colleagues, to society in general and to ourselves to ensure that our 'processing' makes an important difference.
 'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
 Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
 In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
 Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
 Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
 Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
 The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
¡cómo se nota que no está el jefe! 
while the cat's away, the mice will play
 That kind of breakdown is mirrored with other countries as well - what it tells us is while the cat's away, the mice will play.
editor jefe 
editor-in-chief
 This is a collection of articles, editorial and reviews from the career of Eric Moon a former editor-in-chief of Library Journal.
enfermera jefe 
matron
 This matron's charter sets out ten broad principles for delivering cleaner hospitals.
jefa de oficina de correos 
postmistress
 These figures of 'authority', the local postman, the vicar, the village postmistress and schoolmaster were fast disappearing from the rural scene.
jefe de bomberos 
fire marshal
 Fire marshals must perform many duties, from investigating fires to find their source to enforcing fire safety laws.
jefe de cocina 
chef
 Many recipes not taken from books, magazines or famed chefs remain untested and thus less reliable.
jefe de comedor 
head waiter
 He also worked as a head waiter on ferryboats for two years.
jefe de escuadrón 
squadron leader
 Their squadron leader was relieved of his duty immediately after arrest.
jefe de espías 
spymaster
 Even if CIA spymasters could infiltrate the innermost Kremlin, they would still be clueless about what was happening in the rest of Russia.
jefe de estado  
head of state
chief of state
 If the laws are decrees of a head of state, chief executive, or ruling executive body (e.g. a junta), make an added entry under the corporate heading for the official or ruling executive body.
 The choice of entry for chiefs of state is the same as that for works by popes or other high ecclesiastical officials.
jefe de estudios 
deputy head
 He was the deputy head of the delegation that negotiated the 1946 agreement with the Swiss Government.
jefe de facturación 
billing clerk
 This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
jefe de gobierno 
head of government
 Usually, according to parliamentary law, the head of government must regularly call an election.
jefe de la tribu 
tribal chief
 Divine law comes direct from God, usually with priests or tribal chief or king as intermediary.
jefe del estado mayor 
Chief of Staff
 The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.
jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento 
chief knowledge officer (CKO)
 This article discusses the emergence of 'chief knowledge officers' or 'knowledge executives' within organizations, viewed by many in the library profession as a logical, and perhaps deserved role for librarians.
jefe de los servicios de información 
chief information officer (CIO)
 A recent study indicates that roughly 1/3 of major US companies now have a chief information officer (CIO) who manages information in its broadest sense.
jefe del servicio de catalogación 
cataloguing head
 Leforte could usually identify those footsteps easily; but today they sounded more rushed that what could normally be expected from the cataloging head.
jefe del servicio de referencia 
reference head
 Reference heads, like other administrators, will generally work toward establishing the 'ideal' organization scheme based on functional responsibilities - and not based on the current personnel roster.
jefe de milicia 
warlord
 Major industries had either been appropriated by the controlling warlords or driven out of business by raids and looting.
jefe de obra 
site manager
 A site manager is the person in charge of all on site operations, working with contractors and subcontractors and ensuring the building contract runs to schedule.
jefe de oficina  [Para el femenino también se usa office manageress]
office manager
 This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
jefe de oficina de correos 
postmaster
 This mini-pack could be used by 'individuals in the community who are called upon to give information, such as parish clerks, the clergy, postmasters, trade union officials, mobile librarians, as well as people acting as village links'.
jefe de personal   
personnel officer
welfare officer
staff manager
 The personnel officer of a factory drops a stack of a few thousand employee cards into a selecting machine and produces in a short time a list of all employees who live in Trenton and know Spanish.
 In larger library systems there will be a welfare or personnel officer who can assist staff with personal problems relating to home life or their employment.
 Few executives will deny that staff managers contribute substantially to the performance of their organizations.
jefe de personal de la biblioteca 
library personnel officer
 An interview committee, consisting of the library personnel officer and the associate executive director for branches, convened to speak with applicants for the adult materials selection position = Un comité seleccionador, compuesto por el responsable del personal de la biblioteca y del subdirector ejecutivo de las sucursales, se reunió para hablar con los candidatos para el trabajo de selección de material de adultos.
jefe de policía  
chief constable
police chief
 I believe that it was in a West Riding town that three successive chief constables were relieved of their duties because they were drunk and incapable.
 Colombia's Police Chief has said the government would continue to fumigate the country's crops of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, in the fight against illegal drugs.
jefe de prensa 
press officer
 This article seeks to evaluate the potential value of press releases to researchers by means of interviews with the press officers of two major government departments and two quasi-non-governmental organisations (quangos).
jefe de producción 
production manager
 A production manager is involved with the planning, coordination and control of manufacturing processes.
jefe de recursos humanos 
human resource manager
 Conflict resolution and improving overall workplace moral is a key part of the role of a human resource manager.
jefe de sección 
section head
 So long as the department carries out its responsibilities well and violate no regulations, there is little likelihood that the library director will attempt to impose his or her individual style of management on the independent section head.
jefe de seguridad   
security official
security officer
safety official
 A security official said that Yemeni warplanes have killed 80 anti-government tribesmen who overran part of a military camp.
 Guards, who are also called security officers, patrol and inspect property to protect against fire, theft, vandalism, terrorism, and illegal activity.
 Safety officials have examined two fairground rides after two people were killed and three injured in two separate accidents.
jefe de taller  [Persona responsable de los trabajos de una imprenta]
overseer
 In one, called working on time or in pocket, the clicker received copy and instructions from the overseer and divided the work among his companions.
jefe, el   
big guy, the
big gun, the
top banana, the
 Look at him sucking up to the big guys, talking about golf that he really is terrible at, trying to get into the 'boys club'.
 Now that they are up to speed, Ron has tracked down the school's big guns to see how things have been rolling along.
 I don't mean to oversimplify life, but on some days it seems to me that society divides into two categories: the top bananas and the second bananas.
jefe militar  
army official
army officer
 Army officials would often manicure locations before journalists would enter and so it took far too long for anyone to start being critical of the war.
 He is the highest-ranking army officer to face criminal charges as a result of the prisoner abuse scandal.
muchos jefes y pocos trabajadores 
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
 Master and M. Phil degrees can also be taken, but there is a danger of producing too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
ser el jefe      
be in charge
call + the shots
be the boss
call + the tune
rule + the roost
run + the show
 He stared coldly at her for a moment, then spat out: 'Bah! You're in charge'.
 The article is entitled 'Who's calling the shots in the semiconductor industry'.
 One of the hardest things about being the boss is that no one tells you what you're doing wrong.
 As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa.
 Just as the 19th century belonged to England and the 20th century to America, so the 21st century will be China's turn to set the agenda and rule the roost.
 This might happen organically as a younger cohort replaces the boomers currently running the show.

Trends of use of jefe

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JEFE»

The term «jefe» is very widely used and occupies the 1.019 position in our list of most widely used terms in the Spanish dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of jefe
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JEFE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «jefe» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «jefe» appears in digitalised printed sources in Spanish between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the Spanish literature, quotes and news about jefe

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10 SPANISH QUOTES WITH «JEFE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word jefe.
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André Maurois
La crítica del jefe por el subordinado debe ser un accidente, no un hábito.
2
Baldassare Castiglione
Cuando el jefe puede lo que quiere, se corre el gran riesgo de que quiera lo que no debe querer.
3
Eurípides
La temeridad es peligrosa en un jefe: el verdadero coraje es la prudencia.
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Napoleón
Sólo se deja guiar un pueblo cuando se le enseña un porvenir; un jefe es un comerciante de esperanzas.
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Paul Valéry
Un jefe es un hombre que tiene necesidad de otros hombres.
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Plutarco
Un jefe debe tener los ojos tan puros como las manos.
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Proverbio Tuareg
Sigue la senda, aunque dé rodeos; sigue al jefe, aunque sea viejo.
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Aristóteles
El mando de muchos no es bueno; basta un solo jefe.
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Confucio
Es más fácil apoderarse del comandante en jefe de un ejército que despojar a un miserable de su libertad.
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Jorge Santayana
Nuestra adhesión a un jefe natural no es una pérdida de libertad, es el reconocimiento de que nuestras ideas tiene un ejecutor y un intérprete.

4 SPANISH PROVERBS WITH THE WORD «JEFE»

Cuando el jefe manda bien, huelgan las preguntas.
Del jefe y del mulo, cuanto más lejos más seguro.
Del jefe y del perro viejo, mejor cuanto más lejos.
El jefe siempre tiene razón.

10 SPANISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JEFE»

Discover the use of jefe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to jefe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Spanish literature.
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El Oficio del Jefe de Obra
La figura del jefe de obra resulta imprescindible en la construccion actual.
Agustí Portales Pons, 2007
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Lo que tu jefe quiere que sepas: descubre cómo realmente ...
Lo que tu jefe quiere que sepas recoge estas reflexiones y explica con un lenguaje claro y sencillo como hacer lo mismo que los mejores directores ejecutivos de todo el mundo: Comprender la esencia de su empresa y operar desde una ...
Ram Charan, 2002
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Buen jefe, mal jefe
Buen jefe, mal jefe es altamente recomendable.» Tom Peters, autor de En busca de la excelencia
Robert I. Sutton, 2011
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¿Quién ha matado a mi jefe? Descubra el arma de la ...
El autor, Esteban Solano Rada, es Licenciado en Psicología por la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca y Master en Dirección de Recursos Humanos y Organizaciones en ESIC.
Esteban Solano Rada, 2012
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Mi jefe es un psicópata: Por qué la gente normal se vuelve ...
Iñaki Piñuel le revelará su hábitat, sus motivaciones y los mecanismos que utilizan a través de un exhaustivo análisis psicológico de sus personalidades, con el que podrá descubrir que, desgraciadamente, convertirse en uno de ellos ...
Iñaki Piñuel, 2010
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Jefe de cocina
Este libro no pretende ser un tratado de cocina con recetas, tendencias ni ingredientes. Es un acercamiento a la otra vertiente del puesto de Jefe de Cocina: la gestión.
José Luis Sesmero Carrasco, 2007
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El jefe del clan
Aquel hombre tenía reputación de ser tan duro e indomable como las tierras que habitaba.
Terri Brisbin, 2009
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Mi jefe griego
El guapísimo millonario Samos Stilakos era el sueño de toda mujer hecho realidad y, por lo que Ellie O’Dea sabía, estaba encantado de serlo.
Anna Cleary, 2010
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Al servicio de Su Majestad... el jefe
Con casi cincuenta años desempeñando trabajos de secretaria, la autora ha tenido oportunidad de conocer los muchos y variados modelos de empresas en los que se desarrolla uno de los trabajos que siempre ocupan mujeres.
Isabel Blas, 2009
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El jefe Seattle: la voz de un pueblo desterrado
Illustrated biography of Chief Seattle.
Liu y Fulla M. Si-yuan, Siyuan Liu, Montserrat Fullá, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JEFE»

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El ministro de Defensa ordena asignar un 'general en jefe' para ...
El ministro de Defensa de Venezuela, Vladimir Padrino López, ha ordenado asignar un "general en jefe" para cada rubro alimenticio, a fin de "mostrar un mapa ... «Diario de Cuba, Aug 16»
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El jefe del Estado Mayor de EEUU insta a China a "ceñirse a las ...
El jefe del Estado Mayor estadounidense, Mark A. Milley, y su homólogo chino Li Zoucheng EFE. Twitter; Facebook; Enviar; Compartido 0. Comentar noticia. «El Mundo, Aug 16»
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Renuncia Javier González como jefe de oficina de Mancera
El jefe de la Oficina de la Jefatura de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, Javier González Garza, presentó su renuncia al cargo que ocupó desde el 2013, ... «El Universal, Aug 16»
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Jefe de Gobierno urge a invertir en agenda ambiental
El jefe de Gobierno, Miguel Ángel Mancera, exigió a la administración federal más recursos para enfrentar las acciones de combate al cambio climático, ... «Excélsior, Aug 16»
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Política Para el jefe de Gabinete "No está en agenda subir la edad ...
El Jefe de Gabinete, Marcos Peña, dijo que no está planteado el debate sobre una suba de la edad jubilatoria a los 65 años para las mujeres, que había ... «Télam, Jul 16»
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Pulley será desplazado y Ale confirmó su continuidad como jefe
El jefe de la Policía del Chubut, Juan Ale, confirmó -en conferencia de prensa -que el comisario Alejandro Pulley, jefe de la Unidad Regional de Trelew, será ... «El Patagónico, Jul 16»
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General argentino será jefe de observadores en Colombia
... Antonio Pérez, de 57 años y 35 años de carrera militar, ha sido designado por las Naciones Unidas como jefe de observadores internacionales en Colombia. «Voz de América, Jul 16»
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Renault despide a un jefe de unidad de la factoría de Palencia por ...
La empresa automovilística Renault ha despedido este miércoles a un jefe de unidad de la factoría que la compañía tiene en Villamuriel de Cerrato (Palencia) ... «20minutos.es, Jun 16»
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ALDF promueve destitución de jefe delegacional de Azcapotzalco
ALDF promueve destitución de jefe delegacional de Azcapotzalco ... En la imagen de archivo, Pablo Moctezuma Barragán, jefe delegacional de Azcapotzalco. «La Jornada en linea, Jun 16»
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El decreto que invocó el actual Comandante en Jefe del Ejército ...
El decreto que invocó el actual Comandante en Jefe del Ejército para beneficiar a sus hijos Humberto Oviedo Stegmann recibió en 2010 tres mil dólares desde ... «El Mostrador, May 16»

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